aul Cosgrove, who quit rather than risk being Canada's first federally
appointed judge to be removed from office, will collect an annual pension of
more than $178,000.

The Ontario Superior Court judge resigned in April after the Canadian
Judicial Council recommended he be stripped of office. It said his handling of a
1999 murder trial amounted to misconduct destructive of public confidence in the
judicial system.

Cosgrove, 74, a former mayor of Scarborough and one-time Liberal MP who spent
25 years on the bench, freed the accused and ruled the Crown and police
committed more than 150 violations of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. An
appeal court later ruled most of his conclusions were baseless.

Cosgrove will not receive a parliamentary pension because he was an MP for
only four years.

Cosgrove has a legal right to his pension. Just because he screwed up very
royally and publicly and became one of the very very small number of judges if
not the only one in the mind of the public who somehow managed to get a negative
finding from the Judicial council. Canadians need to be more concerned about
present serving judges who are blatantly corrupt and flagrantly and habitually
abuse their absolute power while leaving a trail of destroyed lives, with,
absolute immunity and insulting impunity. Its time for a real Judicial Council
with real powers to investigate every substantive complaint that at present is
swept away like another drop in the ocean. Check out Roscoe's research at the
Ottawa Mens Centre